Mettlach

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Mettlach
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Coordinates: 49 ° 30 '  N , 6 ° 36'  E

Basic data
State : Saarland
County : Merzig-Wadern
Height : 175 m above sea level NHN
Area : 78.16 km 2
Residents: 11,975 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 153 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 66693
Primaries : 06864, 06865 (Weiten, Orscholz), 06868 (Nohn, Tünsdorf)Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / area code contains text
License plate : MZG
Community key : 10 0 42 114
LOCODE : DE MEH
Community structure: 10 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Freiherr-vom-Stein-Strasse 64
66693 Mettlach
Website : www.mettlach.de
Mayor : Daniel Kiefer ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Mettlach in the Merzig-Wadern district
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Mettlach ( Moselle Franconian Mettlich ) is a municipality in the Saarland district of Merzig-Wadern in Germany .

Saar loop

geography

Geographical location

Mettlach is located on the Saarschleife and extends west to the Saargau . In the north, the community extends to the Rhineland-Palatinate border. The district town of Merzig is only 8 km away and the state capital Saarbrücken is 50 km away. The city of Luxembourg is 40 km away, as is Trier . After Metz is 70 km away.

Almost half of the community area (49.8%) is covered by forest, 41.2% of the area is used for agriculture, only 9% is settlement area. The lowest point is in Saarhölzbach at 154  m above sea level. NHN , the highest point is the Judenkopf in Saarhölzbach at around 500  m above sea level. NN . The highest point, which lies entirely on the municipality, is Weiten, Langensteinchen at 451  m above sea level. NHN .

Community structure

Lithograph from 1863 with the old abbey and old tower (Source: Documentary history of the Merzig district by Constantin von Briesen )

The ten districts and their inhabitants (as of December 31, 2015):

Locality Residents surface
Bethingen 250 1.77 km²
Dreisbach 159 1.52 km²
Faha 339 8.06 km²
Mettlach 3,192 9.54 km²
Nohn 689 5.99 km²
Orscholz 3,664 10.74 km²
Saarholzbach 1,623 13.12 km²
Tünsdorf 894 5.37 km²
Wehingen 477 5.05 km²
Expanses 1,163 16.94 km²
All in all 12,450 78.08 km²

history

A settlement developed from an abbey in the 7th century

Around 676, the Franconian Duke Lutwinus , who later became the Bishop of Trier , founded an abbey on the site of today's Mettlach district . Around 990 Abbot Lioffin built a St. Mary's Church as the founder's grave church. This octagon- shaped church (based on the model of Aachen Cathedral ) is known today as the Old Tower and is the oldest building in Saarland.
See also Saarstein Castle

The current abbey buildings date from the 18th century and were taken over by Jean-François Boch in 1801 in the course of secularization . They still house the headquarters of Villeroy & Boch today . On August 13, 1921, the buildings were badly damaged by a major fire (see also images in the gallery below).

The first bridge connecting Mettlach with Keuchingen was completed in December 1886. It was financed by Villeroy & Boch and was initially subject to tolls . When the bridge was no longer able to cope with the increased volume of traffic in the 1930s, it was replaced by a new building. This bridge, inaugurated on November 15, 1936, was destroyed in World War II. It was not until December 24, 1951, that the new Saar Bridge Mettlach , this time designed as a suspension bridge , was opened to traffic by Prime Minister Johannes Hoffmann .

On October 1, 1936, Mettlach and Keuchingen, which had been separate since July 1, 1778, were reunified. On January 1, 1974, in the course of the administrative and territorial reform of the Saarland, the ten independent municipalities of Bethingen, Dreisbach, Faha, Mettlach, Nohn, Orscholz, Saarhölzbach, Tünsdorf, Wehingen and Weiten were formed into the new municipality of Mettlach.

In October 1944, the 416th Infantry Division had its command post in Keuchingen.

With the revival of the Lutwinus pilgrimage (every year in the week before Pentecost), Mettlach has been a place of pilgrimage again since 2003 .

Surname

There are various explanations for the origin of the name. According to prevailing opinion, it goes back to the Romano-Celtic * Metallacum , which in turn is derived from the Roman personal name Metilius . In part, this is a learned reinterpretation of the Latin Medius Lacus (literally: intermediate lake), which used to be the common interpretation. In Latin texts one finds the name Abattia Mediolacensis for the abbey founded in 676.

politics

Municipal council

Since the local elections on May 26, 2019, the local council has been composed as follows:

Parties 2019
proportion of Seats
CDU 46.66% 17th
SPD 21.13% 7th
left 4.70% 1
FDP 6.62% 2
Green 7.22% 2
FBM 13.66% 4th

mayor

  • 1995 - 2003: Manfred Zimmer (CDU)
  • 2003 - 2011: Judith Thieser (CDU)
  • 2011 - February 3, 2016: Carsten Wiemann (SPD)
  • since October 16, 2016 - Daniel Kiefer (SPD)

After Carsten Wiemann resigned on February 3, 2016, First Alderman Bernhard Schneider (CDU) temporarily assumed office until October 15, 2016.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved by the Interior Ministry on February 9, 1976.

Blazon : "In blue three (2: 1) silver roses with red seeds and red sepals."

The community formed on January 1, 1974 from the former communities of Bethingen, Dreisbach, Faha, Mettlach, Nohn, Orscholz, Saarhölzbach, Tünsdorf, Wehingen and Weiten chose a new coat of arms, which was probably the coat of arms of the Benedictine Abbey of Mettlach. Usually only the Mettlach abbots had a personal coat of arms. The abbot's coat of arms appeared in seals and stone carvings in the area of ​​the abbey. At the time of its existence, the abbey exercised lordship over most of the current municipal area. The coat of arms used by the municipality of Mettlach since February 9, 1976 is the coat of arms of Abbot Heinrich I (Henri) Lejeune, who was in office from 1734 to 1751. The current graphic design was made by the Mettlach local council, local history researcher and honorary citizen Reinhold Junge (1919–2014). Junge also designed the coat of arms of Losheim and that of the Merzig-Wadern district.

The blazon of the previous Mettlach coat of arms read as follows: “Square, top right in silver a red crook emerging from the division , top left in red a silver pilgrim shell , bottom right in blue a silver fish rising from a silver wave foot, bottom left in black and gold, a silver jug ​​with the handle turned to the left. The community colors are red and white. "

The coat of arms was designed by Kurt Hoppstädter and became legally valid on June 7, 1963. The abbot's staff refers to St. Lutwinus , who founded the Mettlach Abbey and officiated as Bishop of Trier , Reims and Laon . The pilgrim shell comes from the coat of arms of the Lords of Sierck , who exerted influence as lords of Montclair Castle . The plate pattern and the jug indicate the importance of the Mettlach ceramic industry. The jumping fish comes from an 18th century seal and points to the Saar's earlier abundance of fish.

Mettlach district

The district of Mettlach has 3108 inhabitants (as of December 2012) and an area of ​​9.54 km². It lies between 159 and 388 m above sea level. Mettlach is located at the exit of the Saar loop on both sides of the Saar .

Administration Villeroy & Boch

Economy and Infrastructure

Tourism in Mettlach has been gaining in importance since the 1980s; the accommodation capacity of the municipality is 1400 beds.

A day clinic of the German Red Cross is located in Mettlach .

traffic

Locking a cargo ship (push convoy) with coal cargo
SÜWEX at Mettlach train station

Mettlach is located on the Saar route Saarbrücken - Trier . The regional train Homburg –Saarbrücken – Trier of the DB Regio AG stops every hour at the stations Mettlach and Saarhölzbach . Since December 2014, the RE 1 called "SÜWEX" has also stopped at the station every hour.

Mettlach lock with hydroelectric power station

Mettlach is connected to the European waterway network with the Saar . On the western outskirts of the city there is a modern large lock, among other things for cargo ships, which primarily supply the Saarland steel locations with coal.

Local businesses

Mettlach is the headquarters of the ceramics company Villeroy & Boch and the German headquarters of the Lands' End company , which operates an outlet store in Mettlach .

leisure

Mettlach is located on the Saarland-Rundwanderweg and Saar-Hunsrück-Steig hiking trails . Part of the Hunsrück-Höhensteig (Orscholz-Mettlach-Saarhölzbach) also leads through Mettlach.

Culture and sights

St. Lutwinuskirche
Bishop Liutwin

Attractions

Others

On December 5, 2006, a meeting of the Weimar Triangle took place in Mettlach .

education

Day care centers

  • Catholic kindergarten "Marienau" Mettlach
  • Community kindergarten "Bahnhofstrasse" Mettlach
  • Catholic day-care center St. Marien Orscholz
  • Catholic day care center St. Antonius Saarhölzbach
  • Catholic Kindergarten St. Hubertus Weiten
  • Catholic kindergarten St. Martin Tünsdorf

Elementary schools

  • Langwies primary school in the Mettlach community
  • Orscholz primary school

Community school

  • Orscholz Community School

Personalities

Born in Mettlach

Personalities associated with the community

  • Jean-François Boch (1782–1858) developed a completely new branch of industry with the production of what was later known as the Mettlacher Platten (floor tiles).
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Breidenfeld (1794–1875), organ builder, built the organ in Mettlach in 1844
  • Eugen von Boch (1809–1898), entrepreneur, mayor of Mettlach
  • Karl August von Cohausen (1812–1894), architect, art historian, classical scholar, archaeologist; built the Mettlacher church
  • Franz Georg Himpler (1833–1916) was a German architect who built the St. Joseph Chapel in Mettlach
  • Anna Boch (1848–1936), impressionist painter from Belgium, spent many holidays in Mettlach
  • Eugène Boch (1855–1941), impressionist painter, friend of Vincent van Gogh , worked at the Mettlach painting school
  • Wilhelm Gattinger (1861–1927), landscape painter
  • György Lehoczky (1901–1979), architect and church window painter , worked, among other things, on the parish church of St. Marien in Mettlach-Orscholz
  • Matt Lamb (1932–2012), Irish-American painter and peace activist; He set up one of his studios in 1994 in the Tünsdorf district of Mettlach
  • Therese Zenz (1932–2019), canoeist, domiciled in Mettlach
  • Benjamin Becker (* 1981), tennis player

Galleries

  • photos

  • Old abbey after the devastating fire of August 13, 1921

  • Inner courtyard of the Old Abbey after the fire on August 13, 1921

  • The old abbey in 2011

  • The first bridge in Mettlach, taken in 1896 (view towards Keuchingen; the toll booth can be seen on the right )

  • The new bridge, inaugurated on December 24, 1951, under construction (view from Keuchingen towards Mettlach)

  • The bridge over the Saar in 2012

  • Park the Old Abbey with that of André Heller created earth spirit of the original on the Expo 2000 was issued

  • Chapel of St. Joseph

  • Saareck Castle in 2006

  • The Catholic parish and pilgrimage church of St. Lutwinus in Mettlach in 2006

  • Mettlach in the fine arts

  • Wilhelm Gattinger: Mauritius Pond (1927)

  • Wilhelm Gattinger: View from the Old Abbey into the Saareck Park (1925)

literature

  • Constantin von Briesen : Documented history of the Merzig-Wadern district. Franz Stein, Saarlouis 1863.
  • Carl Conrad: The beautiful Mettlach, Ein Heimatbuch von der Saar, 3rd edition, Saarbrücken 1938.
  • Mettlach municipal administration (publisher): 1300 years of Mettlach (tenth yearbook of the Association for Local Studies in the Merzig district), Mettlach / Merzig 1975.
  • Roman Koll: Mettlach in its sanctuaries from old and new times, Mettlach 1948.
  • Hildegard Schmal: The foundation of the Mettlach monastery and the "Old Tower" (73rd publication by the Department of Architectural History of the Art History Institute of the University of Cologne), Cologne 2000.

Web links

Commons : Mettlach  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saarland.de - Official population figures as of December 31, 2019 (PDF; 20 kB) ( help ).
  2. ^ Karl Conrath : The people language of the lower Saar and the Upper Moselle - a Moselle-Franconian dictionary . In: Contributions to German Philology . tape 41 . Wilhelm Schmitz Verlag, Giessen 1977, p. 155 (Unchanged reprint by M. Regulator, Merzig / Saar 1996).
  3. ↑ Districts of the community of Mettlach ( Memento from November 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ a b 1300 years of Mettlach. 1976, p. 20.
  5. ↑ 1300 years of Mettlach. 1976, pp. 19-22.
  6. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 804 .
  7. ^ Dieter Robert Bettinger: The History of Army Group G May 1944 to May 1945, Helios-Verlag 2010, page 201
  8. ↑ Venema: On the state of the second sound shift in the Rhineland. 1997, p. 372, books.google.de , accessed on August 3, 2010.
  9. ^ Von Briesen: Documented history of the Merzig-Wadern district. 1863, p. 75.
  10. ↑ Mettlach Mayor Carsten Wiemann throws in the towel , Saarbrücker Zeitung Online, February 4, 2016
  11. ↑ https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/stwendel/nohfelden/ehrenbuerger-reinhold-junges-95-jahre-jung_aid-1181464 , accessed on March 12, 2019.
  12. ^ Hermann Lehne, Horst Kohler: Wappen des Saarlandes, Landes- und Kommunalwappen, Saarbrücken 1981, pp. 82–83.
  13. ^ Hermann Lehne, Horst Kohler: Wappen des Saarlandes, Landes- und Kommunalwappen, Saarbrücken 1981, p. 100.
  14. ↑ RE now also stops in Mettlach
  15. ↑ Kindergartens in the Mettlach municipality; Mettlach community. In: Mettlach. Retrieved June 19, 2018 .
  16. ↑ a b schools in the Mettlach municipality . In: Mettlach community . ( mettlach.de [accessed June 19, 2018]).
  17. ↑ Old Abbey drawn by Anna Boch in 1866 ( Memento from January 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ Mettlach community: The earth spirit. (PDF; 214 kB) (No longer available online.) September 3, 2008, archived from the original on May 20, 2009 ; Retrieved November 11, 2010 .